About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for an exceptional Presenter to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Presenter, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Whilst this is a temporary position until November 2025, there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

Your world of expertise

The Presenter is a high-profile role as a primary touch point for users of Met Office and media customer content across broadcast, social media, live news bulletins and live social media broadcasts.

Your key duties:

• Be a leading and trusted presenter for our recorded and live presented outputs for the Met Office, commercial broadcast contracts, social media and syndication outputs.
• Combine presentation skills with meteorological knowledge to lead on-screen communication and presentation, proactively and reactively, of complex weather and climate science in a manner that inspires and delivers our message to a variety of audiences, wherever they are, whilst also maintaining the Met Office's reputation for world leading science and accuracy.
• When required, act as spokesperson to deliver Met Office key messages for media interviews and campaigns.
• Support, attend and sometimes lead the twice-daily editorial meetings and help drive the rapid turnaround of reactive content for social media and syndication. This includes traditional weather bulletins, audio (including podcast), live news and radio bulletins, social media live broadcasts, public speaking events and other media as required.
• Support the Met Office presenter training programme by coaching and developing new presenters and being a role model to ensure a continuous pipeline of key talent is available to the Met Office.
• Act as a super user and drive the development and use of Visual Cortex, the Met Office's weather graphics package to constantly push and improve our output.
• Help with team resilience by fulfilling other content duties as required such as studio operation, posting to social media channels, writing, simple editing tasks and supporting the Press Office.

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Must be a highly effective verbal communicator with demonstrable experience of presenting material across broadcast media and/or online/social outlets.
2. As an expert by nature on all things weather, must have an excellent knowledge of meteorology and climate science and a strong interest in the Met Office's work.
3. Always evolving our content, must have knowledge of innovative visualisation tools and techniques, and how these can be leveraged to present weather (and climate) information, warnings and data to a range of audiences across a range of channels.
4. As a primary touch point for users and customers and a visible 'face' of the Met Office, must be a champion of Met Office values.

Desirable Criteria:

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but we’re also keen to discover if you have:

1. Experience of presenting on national or regional television or social media.
2. Trained meteorologist with knowledge and experience of weather graphics systems.
3. Excellent writing skills.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £52,799, Met Office contributes £14,309 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. Your application should also include a link to your latest showreel.

Closing date 15/07/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 23/07/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.